Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-14

IHE supreme lOdge OF The universe.
1. o. o. F., meets in Denver OH the
10th of September.
THE increase of immigration to Cas-
tie Garden from the 1st of January to
1st of July, 1887, is ,S4S over that Of
the same period last year.
MINNEAPOLIs is preparing to bore
. for gas and coal. Ditto every other
locality in Kansas that has proper
spirit of enterprise and push.
THE knights of Pyth1as, at their in
stallation meeting at Salina on last
Thursday, decided to erect "a temple at
that place to cost in the neighbOrhOOd
of $4,000.
OUR building boom moves right
along, and almost the first remark all
visitors make when they see our town
is: 'Well, you people don't seem to
be going wild over a boom, but your
substantial buildings going up look as
though your people had all faith imag-
Unable in your town.
CANADA boasts of printer one hun
dred and three years old, who remem-
. .bers of having seen a clean printing
office towel when he was Il little boy.
If the man still lives he is indeed a
wonderful being. There is chance,
though, that he has entered his second
childhood, and his statement about the
towel one of the vagaries of an un-
settled mind.
THERE is no doubt that natural gas
is going to revolutiOnize the fuel ques-
ton. The whole country is taking a
deep interest in this new product. The
cities within radius of 100 miles of
the Pennsylvania and Ohio natural gas
fields are promised gas, for domestic
purposes, in short time. y great
many firms are likely to remove to the
gas region, in order to save coal.
WILL BOULTON, of the Greensburg
Signal, says: ''NNhen the roll call is
sounded on the Judgment day and
the heavens are rolling together as
scroll, and the reverberatiOns of
wrecked, and ruined worlds peal forth
the fiat of eternal rest, | want to hang
my weary bones on the galley rack of
Immortality and register i'll four line
plea as Il man from Kansas"
THROUGH the courtesy of Mr.. G. r.
Scott of this city, we were shown
fac-simile copy of the Vicksburg Daily
Citizen, published OH July 2, 1868, the
last number of that daily published be-
fore the fall of the city. For number
of days during the seige of Vicskburg
this paper was printed on the reverse
side af wall paper, that being the only
paper obtainable at the time. The
copy shown us is curiosity well
worthy of preservation.
BARTON county is fast getting to the
front as pork raising county. Two
firms in this city shipped over 1000
hogs out of the county inside of the
last week. With the immense corn
corp this state will have this fall it will
stand the farmers in hand to keep a
large number of stock hogs for breed
ing purposes, as they can get Il better
price for their product through fatten-
ing stock than by selling the corn
direct from the field or granary.
GARDEN CITY appreciates the value
of competing railroad lines. AT IA
meeting there OH the 9th inst, the citi-
zens subscribed $25.05O as premium
to the first to be given to the first COM
peting line of railroad that will come
to their town. In Barton county we
have chance to get one of the best
lines on Kansas soil i'll addition to the
A., T. & s. F., and the Mo. F. We
mean the Midland & Western. or
Frisco Line. Let us vote the bonds
AN EXCHANGE says the Kansas
frontier has been moved over i'll Colo
rado. There is a good deal of truth in
the saying, too. Kansas ground is now
pretty generally occupied by actual
and permanent settlers, and those
pioneers who are forever on the move,
the men who are the first to open up
new territory but who never stay long
enough i'll one place to receive a re-
ward for their early hardships, have
been mostly crowded out of Kansas by
the more thrifty and energetic settler.
Great GoS polt